High-Cost Drugs & Homecare Pharmacy Assistant

Job overview

At the time of advertising, this role does not meet the minimum requirements set by UK Visas and Immigration to sponsor candidates to work in the UK. For this reason, we are unable to sponsor anyone for a skilled worker visa for this role.

We are happy to accept applications from candidates who can prove their right to work in the UK or via alternative visa routes. Such applications will be considered alongside all other applications.

Are you  looking to join a friendly and progressive pharmacy team, which is focused on ensuring that all our patients receive  safe, clinically effective and cost-efficient medicines?

The successful candidate will support our Lead Pharmacy Technician (Homecare and Blueteq) in the management of homecare medication  to our patients. You will also work  You will help the ophthalmology clinical area with the controlled supply of high cost stock as well as working with the Blueteq pre-approval funding process to ensure that their patients have the correct funding in place.  You will also help the gastroenterology team in managing the flow of homecare prescriptions and ensuring funding is in place.

Main duties of the job

In joining our team, we would like you to support our culture of improving together, inspire other team members, embrace change, and demonstrate a patient- centred approach. In return, we will support you in developing your knowledge and skills, and in your future career development.

We embrace new technologies. Our pharmacy robots are invaluable members of our team; electronic prescribing is well-established in almost all inpatient and outpatient settings at Great Western Hospital; we use CareFlow EPR electronic patient records system and NerveCentre for electronic pharmacy handover notes.

Detailed job description and main responsibilities

• To provide  support to the lead pharmacy technician working with the homecare team to assist in the delivery of the team's key objectives, completion of the team’s agreed tasks and actions, and documentation  as per pre-set processes
• To be able to book in and process homecare prescriptions, checking through the prescription to make it is legal and complete. To create purchase order numbers and sending the prescriptions to the suppliers.
• To pay the invoices from the suppliers  and to book thew medication out to the patients profile.
• To be able to monitor and action emails to the joint box
• To work with gastroenterology to ensure homecare prescriptions are managed when requested and checking that the patient has prior approval of funding before prescriptions sent to pharmacy
• To work with ophthalmology, in the supply of high cost medication , controlling of the stock and ensuring prior approval of funding is in place.

It is expected that the post holder will undertake in depth training and obtain a QCF level 2 in Pharmacy services unless you already hold a relevant qualification.